-
COLLECTION
- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
-
DATE RANGE
- 1986x
Tags
Type
Specific Item Type
Collection
Series
Date Range
Specific Date
Contributor
Subject
Time Period
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan's involvement in the White House "To Fulfill These Rights" conference; Moynihan's report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action;" deciding who would be invited to speak at the…
- Excise tax reduction; raising the discount rate in 1965; Robert McNamara's and Charles Schultze's misrepresentations of defense expenditures; Barr's involvement in the opening of a bank in Vietnam; the effect of U.S. involvement in…
- Origin of Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Life; LBJ's interest; Opportunity Homestead proposal and its objectives; extending War on Poverty into rural areas; Rural Community Development Service; problems of rural poor in cities; inadequacy…
- Barr's work with FDIC; bringing the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve System and the FDIC together under one agency; James Saxon; controversy surrounding revenue bonds; Saxon's attempts to deregulate the banking system; problems…
- How Clark met LBJ; how Governor James Allred helped LBJ run for Congress in 1937; campaign costs in 1937; LBJ's support for FDR; fundraising for LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Brown and Root; W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel's…
- Early political interest and involvement; work with Wisconsin Electric Cooperatives; editing the National Farmers Union newsletter; views on Benson's farm program; work on Senator Proxmire's staff; LBJ and Proxmire; 1959 Proxmire speech;…
- Optimism in the LBJ Administration going into the 89th Congress in 1964 with a large Democratic majority; Medicare and education as legislative priorities; the powerful alliance of Republicans and southern Democrats; O'Brien's awareness of…
- Vice President LBJ’s meeting with black cabinet, resulting in blacks helping with Democrats by distribution of literature through barber shops and beauty shops, use of radio, the press, and the influence of black ministers, especially Marshall…
- Congressional relations with the Department of the Treasury during the Kennedy administration; Charls Walker; Barr's duties under the Department of the Treasury; Larry O'Brien; conflict between the Department of the Treasury and other…